Televising Chineseness

"Song convincingly maps how Chinese state media conditions its audience to guard its national identity. Recommended."

* CHOICE *

"...This book fills several important gaps in the fields of Chinese television and gender studies by bringing into dialogue the discussions of gender, nation, and media in the Chinese context. It serves as a valuable guide to the wealth of gendered images in Chinese TV and Web drama programs, an emerging carrier of China’s soft power."

* Television & New Media *

"Televising Chineseness is an impressive academic text with adroitly put arguments. It not only offers meticulous analyses of the history and contemporary situations of China’s television and other media industries, Chinese audience and fan cultures, and rising issues concerning the Chinese cyber environment and offline social realities but also provides readers with rich details and useful information on Chinese popular culture and media communication in general."

* Critical Asian Studies *

"The accessible writing in this book is admirable, and Song deserves praise for the manner in which the televisual material in the seven chapters in lucidly and meticulously analyzed. The narrative flow is remarkable and makes for a read that is enjoyably informative, especially for readers who are familiar with the television series under discussion."

* Dennis Bruining, The China Journal *

"[T]his book overall is a thoughtful, intriguing, and important analysis of Chinese television. We highly recommend it to students, scholars, and the public interested in critical media studies."

* Tingting Liu and Yuting Yang, China Information Review *

"Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity offers a fresh perspective on the intersection of gender and queerness in Chinese television research. This work will encourage Chinese readers to re-examine their perceptions of television in China and rethink how the government manipulates media to create cultural propaganda."

* Xingyi Li, Europe-Asia Studies *

Challenging stereotypical assumptions through nuanced analyses, it penetrates the mist and fills significant gaps in scholarship on gender, power, and television. Well-structured and theoretically refined, the book does not stop at tracing interesting televisual plotlines but delves into some intricate social and political "plotlines" beyond the texts."

-- Fan Xiong * Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China *

"Televising Chineseness provides extraordinary insights into the Chinese national identity by combining the perspectives of gender, nationalism and modernity. . . All in all, Televising Chineseness represents a new route of theoretical inquiries on TV studies and should inspire more works on TV drama and subjectivation in the future.

* Qian Gong, East Asian Journal of Popular Cultu